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Billboard | New York Times | Rolling Stone | GQ | Forbes | NPR | ABC News | MTV |
BUILD Series | Alternative Press | Apple Music |Teen Vogue | Good Morning America | Paper Magazine | Genius | Vice i-D | South China Morning Post | Billboard Korea | EnRoute
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Jeff Benjamin is an award-winning music and travel journalist based in New York City. In addition to his writing, his expertise on pop music—particularly in international music and his speciality as an expert in K-pop (Korean pop)—has been featured in and commissioned as a source for outlets like the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN, USA Today, Time, BBC, Allure, Pollstar, MTV, Money, NPR, The Fader, Yahoo!, The Korea Times, The Korea Herald and more.
The Harlem journalist has made on-air appearances and hosted segments for CNN, Billboard, ABC News, CBS, NBC, Good Morning America, Time, E! News, Inside Edition, FOX, BUILD Series, Entertainment Tonight, Cheddar, NY1, Extra and more. The 29-year-old has spoken on radio and podcasts for the New York Times’ ‘Popcast’ podcast, NPR ,‘Here & Now’ and ‘All Things Considered,’ Billboard’s Must-Hear Music podcast, Barstool Sports and more.
“The leading American authority on K-pop.”
–The New York Times, 2018
“You’re the perfect person to talk to us about K-pop.”
–CNN, 2018
Jeff has been asked to share his expertise as an expert, journalist and consultant to speak at local and international events including SXSW, Comic-Con, and KCON in the United States, MU:CON, the Culture Communication Forum, the Korea Foundation’s Public Diplomacy Week and MBN Y Forums in South Korea, MIDEM in France, and more.
As of Summer 2019, he is currently acting as the international correspondent for We K-Pop, a K-pop variety show filmed in South Korea by KBS World that is aired weekly to more than 100 million viewers in 120 countries around the world. His weekly segments include an in-depth analysis on that week’s guest as well as a featured “Jeff’s Pick of the Week” and analyses on artists rising on the K-pop scene.
In January of 2020, Jeff was recognized with his first award as a journalist. The Corea Image Communication Institute (CICI) named him winner of The Korea Image Stepping Stone Bridge Award for “his contribution to introducing K-pop artists to the world becoming a bridge between the artists and the global audience.”
Exciting news over at Fuse! As of fall 2015, I am officially taking on the role of Features Editor at Fuse Digital. I’ll be the leading editor for a team of writers and editors for large projects, events, artist content as well as working with writers to create thoughtful, more in-depth content about current events. Very excited and honored to take on this role and becoming an editor in less than three years as a writer!
Today was an exciting day as I brought in to NPR’s studios to be a guest and talk about boy bands! With news that both the U.K.’s One Direction and Japan’s SMAP could be breaking up, NPR reached out to me as someone who has knowledge with the East and West pop world. It was a fun little segment on Here & Now with Robin Young and Jeremy Hobson, and I hope I’m brought back again soon! That’s a photo I took in the studio to the left with my trusty notebook always at my side!
